Caroline Yoder
Carrie Yoder spent ~5 years as a digital nomad with her husband Drew managing their points and miles travel blog, "Travel Is Free". Now she shares her content management and design skills with others, including Frequent Miler.
How to book Vacasa Vacation Rentals with Wyndham points [Video]
Sometimes I find myself staying at a hotel when I'd really rather be in a vacation home just because I'd rather spend points than cash. I imagine that's even more true for large families...
What’s the best travel destination on the East Coast? | Ask Us Anything Ep...
It wasn't technically Halloween when we went live to answer reader questions yesterday, but we love an excuse to goof off, so we all put on zoom costumes for this episode. As usual, our listeners...
InterContinental Presidente Cancun Resort Bottom Line Review
Almost 10 years ago during our Travel is Free days, Drew and I thought it would be valuable research to walk the entire Cancun beach so we could determine which of the many beachside...
Favorite European Airlines | Ep 60 AUA
We absolutely love how creative our listeners are each month during our Ask Us Anything, Live on YouTube. During episode 60 for example, we got to tease out whether or not we have any...
Why does Greg hate flying Southwest? | Ask Us Anything Ep 59
This past Wednesday we had another fun evening answering questions from readers. For instance we had a surprisingly hard time narrowing down the options for a reader who asked which credit cards make the...
How to buy a Frequent Miler hat (and other items we’ve designed over the...
Well Frequent Miler fans, the wait is over. Greg, Nick, Tim, and Stephen have been chattering on about their tips for traveling with miles and points, but I know you've all been eagerly awaiting...
How would the Frequent Miler team improve Hyatt? | Ask Us Anything Ep 58
On this month's Ask Us Anything Live episode, Greg, Tim, and Stephen answered viewer's questions about how to become better at finding and booking awards (16:23), which program we think is number 2 after...
Can you drive to Masai Mara? Navigating Kenya’s roads with a Toyota Rav...
In a recent post, Greg highlighted the JW Marriott Masai Mara and a plethora of award availability between September 2023 and June 2024. In his post he talks about why he's excited about the...
Selecting a Vegetarian meal on JAL (and why I won’t next time)
For our Party of 5 trip this past June, our whole team traveled together for 2 weeks, starting with a flight from San Francisco to Tokyo on a Japan Airlines Business Class flight which...
What is TeamLabs (and why should you go next time you visit Tokyo)
If you followed our Party of 5 team challenge, you may remember watching videos of our group of 5 playing around in a room full of lights and mirrors, (or maybe you remember the...
Business credit cards: Am I missing out by not applying? | Ask Us Anything...
We were unfortunately Nick-less for this episode of Ask Us Anything Live (since Nick was busy taking free cruises with his family) but the rest of us had our usual fun answering your live...
Wyndham Golden Suites, Foz do Iguacu: Bottom Line Review
During our team's recent Party of 5 challenge, we visited the incredible Iguazu Falls - our final destination of our whilrwind 2-week trip. The Iguazu Falls are less remote than you might think, only...
7 Reasons why to book an Airbnb instead of a points hotel
Even though we all love suite upgrades, lounge access, and 4pm checkout, I think there's a strong argument to be made for Airbnbs sometimes being a better choice than points hotels. During the 4...
Rewatch our Party of 5 Trips (and help Greg break the tie!)
If you've already read Greg's post where he assigned points to Team SFO and Team TYO, you already know that it came out to a tie with each team receiving 130K arbitrary Greg-points for...
